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Great Basin

Here are entered works on the interior drainage area of the western United States extending from the Sierra Nevada on the west to the Wasatch Range on the east and from the Columbia Plateau in the north to the Mojave Desert in the south.

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• Great Basin -- Antiquities
• Great Basin -- Climate
• Great Basin -- Discovery and exploration
• Great Basin -- Economic conditions
• Great Basin -- Environmental conditions
• Great Basin -- Forestry
• Great Basin -- Geography
• Great Basin -- History
• Great Basin -- Languages
• Great Basin -- Surveys
• Anabrus simplex -- Control -- Great Basin
• Animals -- Great Basin
• Arid regions -- Great Basin
• Big sagebrush -- Great Basin
• Biotic communities -- Great Basin
• Bird populations -- Great Basin
• Birds -- Habitat -- Great Basin
• Botany -- Great Basin
• Burning of land -- Great Basin
• Carbonate rocks -- Great Basin
• Carex -- Great Basin
• Conifers -- Diseases and pests -- Great Basin
• Ecosystem management -- Great Basin
• Environmental protection -- Great Basin
• Evapotranspiration -- Great Basin
• Fire management -- Great Basin
• Fish habitat improvement -- Great Basin
• Fish populations -- Great Basin
• Fishes -- Great Basin
• Forage plants -- Great Basin
• Forest ecology -- Great Basin
• Forest fires -- Great Basin
• Forest insects -- Great Basin
• Forest management -- Great Basin
• Forest mapping -- Great Basin
• Forest plants -- Great Basin
• Forest reserves -- Great Basin
• Forest surveys -- Great Basin
• Forests and forestry -- Great Basin
• Geology -- Great Basin
• Grasses -- Great Basin
• Grazing -- Great Basin
• Groundwater -- Great Basin
• Groundwater flow -- Great Basin
• Habitat (Ecology) -- Great Basin
• Hydrogeology -- Great Basin
• Hydrological stations -- Great Basin
• Hydrology -- Great Basin
• Indians of North America -- Great Basin
• Insect pests -- Great Basin
• Invasive plants -- Control -- Great Basin
• Irrigation -- Great Basin
• Irrigation farming -- Great Basin
• Juncus -- Great Basin
• Junipers -- Great Basin
• Landscape irrigation -- Great Basin
• Log cabins -- Great Basin
• Mines and mineral resources -- Great Basin
• Native plant gardening -- Great Basin
• Native plants for cultivation -- Great Basin
• Natural landscaping -- Great Basin
• Natural resources -- Great Basin
• Nonpoint source pollution -- Great Basin
• Noxious weeds -- Great Basin
• Paleoclimatology -- Great Basin
• Paleontology -- Great Basin
• Petroglyphs -- Great Basin
• Physical geography -- Great Basin
• Pinus edulis -- Habitat -- Great Basin
• Pinyon pines -- Great Basin
• Plant communities -- Great Basin
• Plant conservation -- Great Basin
• Plant diversity conservation -- Great Basin
• Plant ecology -- Great Basin
• Ponderosa pine -- Great Basin
• Potash deposits -- Great Basin
• Prescribed burning -- Great Basin
• Probable maximum precipitation (Hydrometeorology) -- Great Basin
• Public lands -- Great Basin
• Radioactive waste disposal in the ground -- Great Basin
• Rain and rainfall -- Great Basin
• Range ecology -- Great Basin
• Range management -- Great Basin
• Range plants -- Ecology -- Great Basin
• Range plants -- Effect of fires on -- Great Basin
• Rangelands -- Great Basin
• Reclamation of land -- Great Basin
• Recreation areas -- Great Basin
• Research natural areas -- Great Basin
• Revegetation -- Great Basin
• Riparian ecology -- Great Basin
• Riparian plants -- Utilization -- Great Basin
• Rivers -- Great Basin
• Rugosa -- Great Basin
• Salt deposits -- Great Basin
• Scientific expeditions -- Great Basin
• Sheep -- Great Basin
• Sheep breeds -- Great Basin
• Shrubs -- Great Basin
• Simpson, J. H. (James Hervey), 1813-1883 -- Travel -- Great Basin
• Soil erosion -- Great Basin
• Stone implements -- Great Basin
• Stratigraphic correlation -- Great Basin
• Stream ecology -- Great Basin
• Stream measurements -- Great Basin
• Streamflow -- Great Basin
• Sugar beet -- Great Basin
• Sunflowers -- Great Basin
• Trees -- Great Basin
• United States -- Great Basin
• Uranium -- Great Basin
• Uranium ores -- Great Basin
• Vegetation classification -- Great Basin
• Water -- Great Basin
• Water chemistry -- Great Basin
• Water quality -- Great Basin
• Water quality management -- Great Basin
• Water resources development -- Great Basin
• Water-supply -- Great Basin
• Watershed management -- Great Basin
• Watersheds -- Great Basin
• Wildfires -- Great Basin
• Wildlife habitat improvement -- Great Basin
• Zoology -- Great Basin

• Basin and Range Province
• Intermontane region
• Intermountain Region (U.S.)
• Intermountain West (U.S.)

• Hydrographic history and relict fishes of the North-Central Great Basin (California Academy of Sciences, 1974), by Carl L. Hubbs, Laura Clark Hubbs, and Robert Rush Miller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies of Basin-range structure (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1928), by Grove Karl Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Cottonwood Creek near Salt Lake City, Utah, water years 1999-2000 (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey ;, 2003), by S. J. Gerner, K. M. Waddell, National Water-Quality Assessment Program (U.S.), and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Research information needs on terrestrial vertebrate species of the interior Columbia River basin and northern portions of the Klamath and Great basins : a research, development, and application database (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 1997), by Bruce G. Marcot and Or.) Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forage conditions on the northern border of the Great basin, being a report upon investigations made during July and August, 1901, in the region between Winnemucca, Nevada, and Ontario, Oregon. (Govt. print. off., 1902), by David Griffiths (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drainage Basin Committee report for the Great Basin : 104a. Bonneville Lake Basin, 104b. Lahontan Basin. (U.S. G.P.O., 1937), by United States. National Resources Committee. Water Resources Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index of surface-water records : part 10. The Great Basin to September 30, 1950 (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1951), by Geological Survey (U.S.). Water Resources Division. Salt Lake City District (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index of surface-water records to September 30, 1955) : part 10. The Great Basin (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1956), by J. S. Gatewood and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected hydrologic data for and location of MX wells in east-central and southern Nevada, January 1980 through May 1996 (U.S. Geological Survey ;, 1996), by Mary L. Tumbusch, Donald H. Schaefer, Geological Survey (U.S.), and Las Vegas Valley Water District (Nev.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventory of natural landmarks of the Great Basin (s.n.], 1975), by Vernon B. Bostick, United States National Park Service, University of Nevada. Department of Biological Sciences, and University of Nevada. Department of Geoscience (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index of surface-water records : part 10. The Great Basin to September 30, 1948 (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1949), by Geological Survey (U.S.). Water Resources Division. Salt Lake City District (page images at HathiTrust)

• Great Basin anthropological papers. (University of California, Dept. of Anthropology, 1977) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chronological ordering of Great Basin prehistory (University of California, Dept. of Anthropology, 1973), by Thomas R. Hester (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Four Great Basin petroglyph studies. (University of California, Dept. of Anthropology, 1974) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Four papers on Great Basin anthropology. (University of California, Dept. of Anthropology, 1974) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Climate of the Great Basin Valleys air basin (California Air Resources Board, Division of Technical Services, 1975), by Roy Moore and California Air Resources Board (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Route for the Overland Stage: James H. Simpson's 1859 Trail Across the Great Basin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by Jesse G. Petersen, contrib. by David L. Bigler (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• A route for the overland stage : James H. Simpson's 1859 trail across the Great Basin (Utah State University Press, 2008), by Jesse G. Petersen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exploration and development of the Great Basin before the coming of the Mormons (1922), by Wm. J. Snow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old Spanish trail. (Williams and Wilkins Company, 1921), by Joseph J. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Great Basin before the coming of the Mormons (1923), by Wm. J. Snow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Great Basin region comprehensive framework study; appendix. ([Washington?, 1971), by Great Basin Region State--Federal Interagency Group (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Great Basin threats : hearing before the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, to consider the major environmental threats to the Great Basin in the 21st century, Las Vegas, NV, October 11, 2007. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests (page images at HathiTrust)
• An assessment of ecosystem components in the interior Columbia Basin and portions of the Klamath and Great Basins (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 1997), by S. J. Arbelbide, Thomas M. Quigley, Or.) Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, and Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (U.S.). Science Integration Team (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Route for the Overland Stage: James H. Simpson's 1859 Trail Across the Great Basin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by Jesse G. Petersen, contrib. by David L. Bigler (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• A route for the overland stage : James H. Simpson's 1859 trail across the Great Basin (Utah State University Press, 2008), by Jesse G. Petersen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Boom Towns of the Great Basin (Denver: Sage Books, c1962), by Frank C. Robertson and Beth Kay Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Basin and range : a history of Great Basin National Park, Nevada (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1990), by Harlan D. Unrau and United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of explorations for a route for the Pacific railroad ...near the 38th and 39th parallels of north latitude, from the mouth of the Kansas River, Missouri, to the Sevier Lake, in the Great Basin (s.n., 1855), by United States War Department and E. G. Beckwith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Great Basin before the coming of the Mormons (1923), by Wm. J. Snow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Route for the Overland Stage: James H. Simpson's 1859 Trail Across the Great Basin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by Jesse G. Petersen, contrib. by David L. Bigler (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• A route for the overland stage : James H. Simpson's 1859 trail across the Great Basin (Utah State University Press, 2008), by Jesse G. Petersen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Creatures of Habitat: The Changing Nature of Wildlife and Wild Places in Utah and the Intermountain West (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Mark Gerard Hengesbaugh (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Report of the Special Committee of the United States Senate on the Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands. (Govt. Print. Off., 1890), by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands, Richard J. Hinton, and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Paper chromatography for determining palatability differences in various strains of big sagebrush (Intermountain Forest & Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1971), by David LaWayne Hanks and Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (Ogden, Utah) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Countering misinformation concerning big sagebrush (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2003), by Bruce L. Welch, Craig Criddle, and Rocky Mountain Research Station (Fort Collins, Colo.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• An assessment of ecosystem components in the interior Columbia Basin and portions of the Klamath and Great Basins (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 1997), by S. J. Arbelbide, Thomas M. Quigley, Or.) Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, and Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (U.S.). Science Integration Team (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bird habitat relationships along a Great Basin elevational gradient (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2000), by Dean E. Medin, Warren P. Clary, Bruce L. Welch, and Rocky Mountain Research Station (Fort Collins, Colo.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wildlife of the intermountain west (Naturegraph Co., 1958), by Vinson Brown, Aldine Starbuck, and Charles Yocom (page images at HathiTrust)

• Guidelines for prescribed burning sagebrush-grass rangelands in the Northern Great Basin (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station, 1987), by Stephen C. Bunting, Bruce Moody Kilgore, Charles L. Bushey, and Intermountain Research Station (Ogden, Utah) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Conceptual evaluation of ground-water flow, carbonate-rock province of the Great Basin (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1995), by David E. Prudic, Thomas J. Burbey, James R. Harrill, and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Evaluation of EIS alternatives by the Science Integration Team (United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 1997), by Thomas M. Quigley, Kristine M. Lee, S. J. Arbelbide, United States Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Service, Or.) Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, and Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (U.S.). Science Integration Team (page images at HathiTrust)
• A framework for ecosystem management in the interior Columbia Basin and portions of the Klamath and Great Basins (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 1996), by Thomas M. Quigley, Russell T. Graham, Richard W. Haynes, and Or.) Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland (page images at HathiTrust)
• An assessment of ecosystem components in the interior Columbia Basin and portions of the Klamath and Great Basins (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 1997), by S. J. Arbelbide, Thomas M. Quigley, Or.) Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, and Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (U.S.). Science Integration Team (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strategic plan for the Coordinated Intermountain Restoration Project (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 2003), by David A. Pyke, Michael L. Pellant, and Coordinated Intermountain Restoration Project (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The role of NEPA in the Intermountain States : oversight field hearing before the Committee on Resources, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, Monday, August 1, 2005, in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2005), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Task Force on Improving the National Environmental Policy Act (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great Basin threats : hearing before the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, to consider the major environmental threats to the Great Basin in the 21st century, Las Vegas, NV, October 11, 2007. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests (page images at HathiTrust)

• Measurement of evapotranspiration in phreatophyte areas, Smith Creek Valley and Carson Desert, west-central Nevada, 1983 (U.S. G.P.O. ;, 1993), by Rita L. Carman, National Regional Aquifer Systems Analysis Program (U.S.), and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Strategic plan for the Coordinated Intermountain Restoration Project (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 2003), by David A. Pyke, Michael L. Pellant, and Coordinated Intermountain Restoration Project (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fisheries, wildlife, and TES species challenge cost-share program report for the Intermountain Region : FY1990. (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Fisheries and Wildlife Staff, Intermountain Region, 1991), by United States. Forest Service. Intermountain Region. Fisheries and Wildlife Staff (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hydrographic history and relict fishes of the North-Central Great Basin (California Academy of Sciences, 1974), by Carl L. Hubbs, Laura Clark Hubbs, and Robert Rush Miller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The zoological evidence; correlation between fish distribution and hydrographic history in the desert basins of western United States (University of Utah, 1948), by Carl L. Hubbs and Robert Rush Miller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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